"The animal [can] be looked at, no doubt, but also - something that philosophy perhaps forgets, perhaps this being calculated forgetting itself - it can look at me. It has a point of view regarding me. The point of view of the absolute other. And nothing will have ever done more to make me think through this absolute alterity of the neighbor than those moments where I see myself naked under the gaze of my cat."
- Derrida, 2002: 280, (in the bathroom with his cat)
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